Lake Taupo weekend: 3~Making the most of that water!

by hayley on 9 June 2013

We intended to take full advantage of the lake being on our doorstep and made the 300m round trip numerous times each day.

Lake Taupo is the largest lake by surface area in NZ, having been created by a truly massive volcanic eruption over 25,000 years ago. The road distance around the lake is about 160km, though much of the western and northern route doesn’t follow the shore and you don’t see the lake at all. Suffice to say though, the lake is big and there’s plenty of it to go around.

Aqua boots are a must in this stony part of the lake at Hatepe – though it is kinda funny watching people do the tender foot shuffle

We saw these two swans every day

It would have been easy to veg out here for the whole weekend, but there was stuff we wanted to do in and around Taupo as well.

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I'm Hayley and I live in the beautiful city of Wellington NZ. Outside of my work as an IT programme manager I love to travel and exercise my creativity. This blog is a photo journal of my travel experiences, the big stuff and the small. Thanks for visiting!